By experience I have been given to learn and perceive how the angels feel all the offensive, hence evil things in a person. I was reading about the people's whoring after Baal-peor, Num. 25, and at that time there was an angelic perception communicated to me, such that I felt nothing foul or offensive, only an indescribable mildness, comparable in earthly terms to touching sharp-cornered objects whose sharp corners have been rubbed off. 1748, 19 May.